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Damn! Just in time to go back to work... Should have been today's rain!

What's with people this year and the early-drop, early-lift of the bar? I've gotten helmet clunked a couple of times already this year after getting on the chair. No sooner than you sit down, but someone's dragging the bar down without saying a word. Then, you barely get to the crest of the Challenge and they're putting the bar up already! Uh, you realize we're still 20-30' in the air and a couple of more lift supports to go before the end? Some people are so eager to put the bar down, but yet even more eager to lift it back up. One time I had my feet on the bar at the crest of Challenge and someone yelled "We gotta lift the bar!". Do they not realize it takes about 2 seconds to lift it?

Cold and dry is good, so long as it's cold enough to make snow!

Good for them, I didn't see that. Looks like a big band of rain heading in... Hopefully they can fix things up Monday night...

With that forecast and the expected lack of crowd, they should just close for the day and conserve the snow.

Yes there is, until the it becomes a burden and requires you to spend your free time on it...

Indeed, building a place is far more fun than just buying an already existing house. It's all so new!! Have a kid or two, then the house goes by the wayside!

The joys of home ownership. The joy only lasts so long...

Excellent diatribe!

The noobs get tired of riding the Vista chair and go in search of new terrain... Sunday afternoon, with all the fresh snow from Saturday, had lower Main Street filled with bumps. People coming off Midway & Chute were screaming how big the moguls were and that they weren't gonna go down it again!

Chute was developing a big thin spot Sunday. Wonder when they're start letting that bump up?

Probably could use one for this coming weekend here...

We take them to Vt all the time, knowing full well we'll be skiing at least one day in the rain.... Actually saw someone wearing a butt flap Saturday afternoon up at Blue...

Take some plastic garbage bags!

Gonna be slow and sticky.

Ugh! and 60's Sunday... Looks like some more seasonable temps for Christmas week though.

Wishing it would stay cold so Saturday's storm would be snow instead of rain...

Worst part might be Jugtown Mountain, depending. Going way out to 145 seems long an awfully long way around. 248 is usually kept pretty clean, just the hills you have to watch for.

I don't think it's gonna be mega crowded either, but I do think it's gonna be more so than the past weekends, mainly because the south got snow, so that's gonna pull them out. Lots will be up for the morning at least, depending on when the flakes start flying. How often do you get to ski a Pocono snow storm?

I hope so, he is the only attendant that has a clue (perhaps that why he left Blue...) as to how to run the 6-pack lines, keep them balanced and keep the VIPs happy! What? You're gonna leave and miss the snow tomorrow???

6-pack's gonna be a shit-show this year without Beau!

Nah, when the lines at the 6 and quad are out to the lodge area, I head back to the doubles. They may be slow, but EVERYONE goes to the bottom and ignores the doubles. I just keep on lapping Main Street and Lazy then.

Nothing that few beers and chainsaws wouldn't fix... Blue should also do away with the double double and just put another detachable quad and just not run it at full speed, in order to keep the on slope numbers the same. Far easier for beginners to get onto a detachable than the fixed-speed, thigh bangers...

Skull Cracker? I always wondered why they don't just blow below the lift between Come Around and Chute, everyone poaches it anyway? They could just widen the area where it attaches to chute to prevent such a hard turn. Most of the other mountains have lift line runs...

Coming home from Blue yesterday, I was following a nice, new Mustang. Coming up on a stop sign, he hit the brakes and the black ice under the snow had him careening towards the sign. He came to a stop a foot or so from the sign, then jammed on the gas to try to get out of the little ditch, amazingly he made it. Nothing like AWD to go to Blue and back...